Community Purse Blog

As the holidays get closer, my mailbox overflows with offers to give money to different organizations.  Most days, there are several thick envelopes with “stuff” inside.   There are return address labels, notepads, all-occasion cards drawn by kids, or a calendar. ...

Fall always means transition.  Summer is over, school starts, days turn crisp, and, as a huge bonus, there are caramel apples available everywhere.  Every year in our part of the world, the trees get perfectly magical before the leaves disappear altogether.  It’s a...

Community Purse meetings are a blast.  It’s a party we are all invited to, where we leave feeling better than when we came.  Most of the same people come and some we may only see once a quarter, so the mood is upbeat and joyful.  At the McHenry Chapter meetings there...

I enjoy a smorgasbord. I appreciate a church potluck. I especially love it when friends come over, everyone brings their best dish, and we eat like kings.  When I look at the difference between eating just what I made or getting to taste all of it, there’s no...

It’s quickly becoming wedding season, and one of the best parts of getting invited to that celebration is scanning the couple’s registry and seeing what they like and what means something to them. Is it the beautiful dishes they will have forever, 800 thread count...